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Brimbank City Council Art Collection
Painting, Judy Waalwyk, Childhood Keilor, circa 1996
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Friends of St Brigids Association
Book - Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood, McCourt, Frank. 1996. Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood. London: HarperCollins
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Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Leo Tolstoy et al, Childhood, boyhood and youth, 1912
Tolstoy's first published novel and the beginning of his Autobiographical Trilogy. Written when he was just twenty-three years old and stationed at a remote army outpost in the Caucasus Mountains, Childhood won Leo Tolstoy immediate fame and critical praise years before works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina would bring him to the forefront of Russian literature. It is the story of the ten-year-old son of a wealthy Russian landowner in the mid-1800s, as told by the child himself. Not a mere chronicle of events and characters, the novel is an intense study of the boy's inner life and his reactions to the world around him. With an intricacy of thought and substance, Tolstoy describes the everyday thoughts of a child-innocent and mischievous, bold and afraid, and curious above all. Childhood, followed by Boyhood and Youth, is the first part of Tolstoy's semiautobiographical series, originally planned as a quartet tentatively called the "Four Epochs of Growth." The completed works together form a remarkable expression of the great Russian novelist's early voice and vision, which would ultimately make him one of the most renowned and revered authors in literary history.p.314.Tolstoy's first published novel and the beginning of his Autobiographical Trilogy. Written when he was just twenty-three years old and stationed at a remote army outpost in the Caucasus Mountains, Childhood won Leo Tolstoy immediate fame and critical praise years before works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina would bring him to the forefront of Russian literature. It is the story of the ten-year-old son of a wealthy Russian landowner in the mid-1800s, as told by the child himself. Not a mere chronicle of events and characters, the novel is an intense study of the boy's inner life and his reactions to the world around him. With an intricacy of thought and substance, Tolstoy describes the everyday thoughts of a child-innocent and mischievous, bold and afraid, and curious above all. Childhood, followed by Boyhood and Youth, is the first part of Tolstoy's semiautobiographical series, originally planned as a quartet tentatively called the "Four Epochs of Growth." The completed works together form a remarkable expression of the great Russian novelist's early voice and vision, which would ultimately make him one of the most renowned and revered authors in literary history. rusian fiction, leo tolstoy 1828-1910 -
Surrey Hills Historical Society Collection
Booklet - Researching your ancestor's childhood
This book draws on a range of research on the history of childhood and the family; histories of and sources for institutionalised care, educational records, toys and games, childhood museums, oral traditions, photographs, law and work for children, health and children's hospitals, the history of women's ancestry and much more from Noeline Kyle's research into the history of childhood, to map out useful strategies for researching the history of your ancestors' childhoodAn A5 sized booklet, 56p, indexnon-fictionThis book draws on a range of research on the history of childhood and the family; histories of and sources for institutionalised care, educational records, toys and games, childhood museums, oral traditions, photographs, law and work for children, health and children's hospitals, the history of women's ancestry and much more from Noeline Kyle's research into the history of childhood, to map out useful strategies for researching the history of your ancestors' childhoodadoption -- australia -- history, children -- australia -- history, children -- institutional care -- australia, children -- new zealand -- history, education -- australia -- history, immigrant children -- australia -- history, orphans -- australia, genealogy -- australia, australia -- genealogy, n -
Bendigo Military Museum
Album - ALBUM, PHOTOGRAPH, C.WWII
Hard red cover, embossed lumpy surface & string binder. The upper right corner has a 60 mm dia hole. Embossed around this hole are the words My Childhood. The internal pages are black cardboard. Fixed to these are 4 black & white photos per page. Photo description is written in white adjacent to photos. Photo subjects of native people from Egypt, Africa, Thailand, Palestine, Syria & Jerusalem, Tobruk, Gaza & Jerusalem war cemeteries.Front cover printed: “My Childhood”album, photographs, native -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Noel Spurr, 2008
Extracts from 'Spurr of the moment'.Extracts from 'Spurr of th moment'. Recollections of childhood of Noel Spurr, who grew up in Forest HillExtracts from 'Spurr of the moment'. mayors, spurr, noel -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Noel Webster, 1935-1992
Excerpts from biographical notes by Noel Webster.Excerpts from biographical notes by Noel Webster, covering his childhood in Vermont (1935-42) and married life (1951-1992).Excerpts from biographical notes by Noel Webster.webster, noel, webster, jean, vermont -
Federation University Art Collection
Photograph, Frank Golding, 'Three-quarter Time' - by Frank Golding, 2001
Frank Patrick Golding (1938 - ) This item is part of the Federation University Art Collection. The Art Collection features over 1000 works and was listed as a 'Ballarat Treasure' in 2007. Frank Golding is an author, researcher, historian, consultant: Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Federation University in Victoria, Australia. His formal qualifications are TPTC (Ballarat), BA (Melb), BEd (Melb), Dip MT (UNE), MA (Hons) (London). He has taught English and History in several schools. Frank Golding was employed as Principal at three schools including a multi-site English language centre for refugees and other new arrivals. Later he taught in and managed curriculum and equity programs in education departments and universities. Finally he is the author of 12 published books including a memoir, An Orphan’s Escape: Memories of a Lost Childhood (Lothian, 2005) which describes his childhood as a Ward of the State of Victoria in the ‘care’ of three foster mothers and three institutions. Golding lived in the Ballarat Orphanage from 1943 to 1953. It is his childhood experiences that underpin Golding's active involvement in ‘care’ leaver issues as an advocate and lobbyist. Golding is a Life Member of CLAN (Care Leavers of Australasia Network) the peak body of Care Leavers for Care leavers run by Care Leavers.Image of bird on 1/2 orange citrus fruit - a play on childhood memory of oranges at 3/4 timeSignature on label on backart, artwork, frank golding, bird, federation college, photography, colour photography, alumni -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - Article, Nirvana in Nuna, 10/01/1997
Childhood memories of Virginia Trioli, writer for The Age, on her childhood in Nunawading.trioli, virginia, trioli, rebekah -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book, Time remembered, 2011
Recollections of a Blackburn childhood.Recollections of a Blackburn childhood.Recollections of a Blackburn childhood.blackburn, blackburn road, blackburn, no.165, niven, barbara -
Melton City Libraries
Photograph, Bruce Myers, 1931
My Story by Bruce Myers – June 2001 Arthur Bruce Myers was born on Wednesday morning on the 29/4/1925 at Kelvin Grove Hospital Bacchus Marsh. Background Information: Prepared by Niece Wendy Barrie. The early life of Bruce Myers “Burnbank” Ballarat Road Melton. The family home was built by his grandparents Ann nee Dowling and Henri Miers in 1867. His father Frederick was born in 1877 in Melton the youngest of four boys. Bruce the fourth son of Frederick and Martha, brother Frederick the eldest was followed by Marjorie and Edna. His brother Max was the youngest child. Father Frederick Myers attended Melton State School No 430 enrolling in 1881 and leaving in 1888 gaining his Merit Certificate No 116343. Bruce enrolled in July 1931 and completed and gaining his Merit Certificate in 1937. In 1938 he travelled to Melbourne Boys High School. Bruce was taught piano by his sister Marjorie, a respected Melton music teacher. He entered many Piano competitions and at the age of 10 winning the radio cup in the Junior Cavalcade at 3AW at Latrobe Street. At Melbourne Boys High School during his lunchtime was allowed to practice the piano in the basement for his recreation. He was pestered by another boy (name I have forgotten) a teacher intervened telling him to leave Myers alone. As a young child when listening to music he was able to on hearing it identify the key it was written in, due to his perfect pitch. I remember “Mum” Myers telling about the time they went to see Artur Rubeinstein at a concert, when Bruce was a small boy, it may have been on this occasion that he had noted the key of the piano composition. Bruce writes – In my early teens Max and I frequently accompanied the Williams boys, Wally and Jim on expeditions up the Toolern Creek near where the Gisborne exit now crosses it. The dogs would chase the rabbits into their burrows after placing nets over the burrows a ferret would be let in to burrow, much excitement would be involved in the rush to grab the rabbits as they bolted into the nets. In the same area I used too accompany Dad on an evening rabbit shoot (summer time). After the heat of the day the rabbits would emerge from their burrows at dusk. We would his behind the tree in silence, a mark contrast to the ferreting scene. Dad with the shotgun cocked would wait until 2 or 3 rabbits were close together then fire (Bang!). Hopefully killing two rabbits. They would have to be killed outright, otherwise they would run back into their burrows. Needless to say, one deafening shot ended the event, also it only cost one cartridge. Our only swimming pool was hole in the Toolern Creek at its junction with the blind creek at the eastern entrance to Melton. Dad swum there in the 1880’s teaching many of the youngsters to swim. Females never swum there to my knowledge. The dressing shed consisted of a 4 corrugated iron nailed to a wooden frame about 4 metres by 3 no floor or roof. We always walked the kilometre in our bathers anyway. The swimming hole once dried up leaving about 2 ft of mud. We Melton boys had so much fun fossicking around with our hands and feet and yanking out numerous eels, some very bid. I don’t know what happened to them all. No doubt Dad would have skun one or two for Mum to cook after cutting them up into short lengths. They used to jump around the pan when they were cooking. Dad accompanied by Max and I, frequently fished for eels in the Gillespie’s waterhole just below our place using a rod, line, sinker, hook baited with a worm, and a white floater so as to easily see when an eel was on the hook, so that it could quickly be pulled before it could anchor itself on and under water snag such as a tree root making it impossible to catch, or causing the line to be lost. At about the age of 8, I suddenly discovered amazingly easily means of movement. One day when I was riding the bike on rough bluestone road near the Presbyterian Church [Uniting Church] in Melton when the front fork broke and I landed on my right knee and right eye gashing both, the knee severely. I have carried the scars ever since. I started getting mobile by riding a scooter with good leg on the scooter and swinging the right leg, keeping is straight because bending it was too painful.Childhood photo of Brucelocal identities -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Document - Sheet music
Sheet music Scenes of Childhoodflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Squires Debra, When I was a boy at Sunnyside, 1988
Childhood memories of James Alexander Ross who spent his childhood and youth at Sunnyside in Gippsland Alps North of OmeoThe memories of Jim Ross with additional research by Debra Squiresmines and mining, township, schools, cemeteries -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Dot Browne
Dot Browne's childhood and prowess at athletics.Dot Browne's childhood and prowess at athletics.Dot Browne's childhood and prowess at athletics.browne, dot, athletics -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - MEDICAL DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD, 1893
Medical Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. A Medical Practitioners handbook.Dawson Williams. M.D.Lon.book, specialist book on health, children's diseases. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Dave O'Neil, 2015
Dave O'Neil reminisces about his Mitcham childhood.Dave O'Neil reminisces about his Mitcham childhood.Dave O'Neil reminisces about his Mitcham childhood.o'neil, dave -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Postcard
The postcard depicts a large group of young men and women posing inside the Beechworth Town Hall. They are attending the Back to Childhood Ball in Beechworth on 3 November 1937. Joining them is a small goat in the front row.The postcard provides insight into entertainment, leisure and recreation in Beechworth during the 1930s. It enriches the community's understanding of how entertainment has developed in Beechworth since the early twentieth century.Black and white rectangular postcard printed on card.Obverse: a memento of the Back To Childhood Ball "Beechworth" / 3.11.37 / Reverse: 3708 / POST CARD / KODAK / CORRESPONDENCE / ADDRESS ONLY / AUSTRAL / A / AUSTRAL / KODAK / N. R. McGEEHAN, (Flashlight Specialist.) / 154 HOTHAM ST., ST. KILDA. S. 2. /entertainment, entertainment album, beechworth, 1930s, goat, recreation, performance, leisure, back to childhood ball, social -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Paul Bangay, 2018
The childhood home of landscape designer Paul Bangay in Vermont is for sale.The childhood home of landscape designer Paul Bangay in Vermont is for sale.The childhood home of landscape designer Paul Bangay in Vermont is for sale.bangay, paul, vermont, malvern street, vermont no 18, buckanbe park -
Melton City Libraries
Photograph, Bruce and Max Myers with Edna (Butler) Missen, Unknown
Childhood photograph of Bruce and Max Myers with Edna (Butler) Missenlocal identities -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Ray Meagher, 1940's - 1950's
Ray Meagher 's memories of his childhood in Mitcham and local dairies.Ray Meagher 's memories of his childhood in Mitcham and local dairies.Ray Meagher 's memories of his childhood in Mitcham and local dairies.meagher, ray -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, And now, for her next trick, 2008
Article about film director Gillian Armstrong, who spent her childhood in Whitehorse.Article about film director Gillian Armstrong, who spent her childhood in Whitehorse.Article about film director Gillian Armstrong, who spent her childhood in Whitehorse.armstrong, gillian -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Sarma Burdeu, 2009
Brief history of Sarma Burdeu's childhood in Blackburn, with photo of Norway Avenue and Sarma Burdeu.Brief history of Sarma Burdeu's childhood in Blackburn, with photo of Norway Avenue and Sarma Burdeu.Brief history of Sarma Burdeu's childhood in Blackburn, with photo of Norway Avenue and Sarma Burdeu.rialto picture theatre box hill, norway avenue blackburn, burdeu, sarma -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Arthur Schwerkolt, 2006
Arthur Schwerkolt's childhood recollections of the Schwerkolt property.Arthur Schwerkolt's childhood recollections of the Schwerkolt property, recorded by Valda Arrowsmith 21 Nov 2006Arthur Schwerkolt's childhood recollections of the Schwerkolt property.schwerkolt cottage -
Canterbury History Group
Letter - Old Creeks of Canterbury, Caffin, Lyle, 26 Feruary 1990
Letter from Lyle Caffin to the Canterbury History Group describing childhood adventures at some of the local creeks.canterbury, creeks, trees, faversham road, winson green road, benporath> mr, back creek, gardiners creek, golf links estate -
Canterbury History Group
Document - A few childhood memories of Airdrie, Anderson, Jean, 1991
A page of childhood memories of living in Airdrie, and a pamphlet of the services provided to retired nurses by Airdrie House and Sharrott Housecanterbury, rochester road, airdrie house, sharrott house, anderson> jean, airdrie house society incorporated, nurses -
Tarnagulla History Archive
Article - News Article: Llanelly, Llanelly, c.1940s
A news clipping, unknown newspaper. Letter to the editor by a person reminiscing about their childhood and school days in Llanelly, Victoria. -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Photograph, Stefanie Rennick nee Reitman, c1990
'Box Cottage' is so named after the first recorded family to establish a house and market garden on the site in 1865. William and Elizabeth Box. After the death of Elizabeth Box in 1914 the house was leased to August Reitman a potter / sculptor who raised his family there 1917 - 1953. Stefanie Rennick nee Reitmann lived at the house until she left to study teaching. The Lewis Timber Company Ltd acquired the land with The Cottage c1970. The CMHS together with City of Moorabbin Council, a 150 Year Celebration Grant and assistance from Lewis Timber Merchants Pty Ltd reconstructed the original 'Box Cottage' on its present site May 1984. August Reitman 1877-1951 and his wife Frieda 1878- 1942 raised 2 children Stefanie 1918-2006 and William 1920-1997 whilst living at the Box Cottage site. .August was a monumental mason and sculptor and was employed to carve war memorials in Victoria after WW1. He moved his business to Highett in 1953 but continued to use the cottage as a workshop until he sold the property to Lewis Timber P/L c 1970. . William and his descendants have continued the family business to the present day. August Reitman 1877-1951 and his wife Frieda 1878- 1942 raised 2 children Stefanie 1918-2006 and William 1920-1997 whilst living at the Box Cottage site. .August was a monumental mason and sculptor and was employed to carve war memorials in Victoria after WW1. He moved his business to Highett in 1953 but continued to use the cottage as a workshop until he sold the property to Lewis Timber P/L c 1970. . William and his descendants have continued the family business to the present day. Stefanie Rennick , a daughter of August and Frieda Reitman resided in Box Cottage 1918 - 1953.A colour photograph of Stefanie Rennick , nee Reitman 1918 - 2001, who spent her childhood living in Box Cottage.box william, box elisabeth, reitman august, reitman stefanie, reitman frieda, city of moorabbin council, lewis timber merchants pty ltd, pottery, sculpture, market gardens, pioneers, early settlers, dendy henry, box cottage museum, moorabbin, brighton, bentleigh, mckinnon, ormond, reitman william, rietmann -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Film - DVD, "The Port Mob", Mar 2007
Ed was sent to the workshop by PMH&PS to learn how to create the dvd"The Port Mob" DVD Made by Edwin Whiting at the ACMI workshop in 2007, covering his childhood mates and their war servicewar - world war ii, edwin whiting -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Letter - Correspondence, Peter Cook, 2014
Peter Cook reminisces about his childhood in Loughnan Road at his family's 25 acre weekend retreat, from 1947.Peter Cook reminisces about his childhood in Loughnan Road at his family's 25 acre weekend retreat, from 1947.Peter Cook reminisces about his childhood in Loughnan Road at his family's 25 acre weekend retreat, from 1947.loughnan road, ringwood, cook, peter -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Growing Up At 1 Vernal Avenue, 1947 - 1962
Childhood memories of Jenny Brash & her neighbours. She grew up at 1 Vernal Avenue, Mitcham and later Glenburnie Road.Childhood memories of Jenny Brash & her neighbours as she grew up at 1 Vernal Avenue, Mitcham and later Glenburnie Road.Childhood memories of Jenny Brash & her neighbours. She grew up at 1 Vernal Avenue, Mitcham and later Glenburnie Road.vernal avenue mitcham no1, brash jenny, orient avenue mitcham, wills jack, wills victor, glenburnie road mitcham no25